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I got Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night fic for Yuletide :D

Show Him the Sky by silveradept
4.7k, post-canon (background hints of Gebel/Miriam)
Summary: Gebel returns to himself abruptly from the crystal corruption. While Miriam and Johannes offer him the possibility that they have won, he must be on his guard that this is another trick from the demon that has tormented him for so long. Can he even trust that he is who they say he is?
Canon knowledge required: Yes

A wonderful Gebel-centric fix-it fic that gave me even more feelings about Gebel than I already had, and the ending is perfect.


And I wrote three stories:

A New Area for marsdragon, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
2.5k, gen, post-canon
Summary: Eventually, all the demons are dead. Miriam never thought about what she would do next.
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Ritual of Cooperation for marsdragon, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
14.1k, missing scene/adventure
Summary: An alchemist and a demon hunter walk into a hell-raised castle together.
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Inside the Secret Lair for azurefishnets, Carto
100 words
Summary: Cartographers love finding hidden places. Not everyone is happy about that.
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This was the most fics I ever wrote for Yuletide so far, the most words, and also the earliest I finished my assignment. I had fun!
Recs still to come (probably. Hopefully.)

I finally posted a Hades fic!

The Garden of Endless Summer
1k, gen, Persephone&OFC
Additional tags: god & mortal friendship, AU - canon divergence, outsider PoV
Summary: Near Korinna's village, there lives a dryad.
(Or: there were two chairs in the garden!!)

It started out as a not-fic/brainstorming so the style is a bit different than my usual. Not really sure how to describe it, but I don't dislike it. I probably would have kept procrastinating on editing this for another month, but this morning in the shower I got an idea for a sequel and I thought that if I post this maybe I will get some encouragement, that would be nice.

For a line I ended up not using I looked up ancient glassmaking and found out that the first greenhouses we know about were used by the Romans, but I headcanon that in this 'verse they figured out how to make them earlier to survive the endless winter.

I wanted to finish this fic this year and I did :)

There Are No Emperors
Campaign: Skyjacks/Star Wars fusion(/crossover), where Jonnit is Gable's padawan and Nodoze is their clone commander and Travis is around too, and so are some others. Warning for Order 66, but a fix-it after that.

This one started out as daily writing exercises that then turned into a fic, so I felt much less pressure to polish it than I usually do which was enjoyable.

Only a few more hours and then 2020 is over! I didn't read half the Yuletide fics I wanted and commented on ever fewer, but I have three days without work coming up where I can hopefully catch up a bit. Work has been very busy in December, and January promises to be even worse, but it'll be okay. At least my bachelor's thesis is done, and I postponed my next exam (again...) so I have a little breathing room, which is nice. Maybe I'll even finally get around to those posts I meant to make in December ^^ And my end-of-year review, I look forward to that.

Guten Rutsch!

My plan is to write at least 200 words each day in November, so far so good.

In September I wrote a bunch of snippets from the same AU and then recently realized that hey, if I edit this just a little it's basically an actual story:
There Are No Emperors
Skyjacks Star Wars fusion. This was a lot of fun. Set during the Clone Wars because the initial idea was "Nodoze would totally be Gable's clone commander."
I thought I had an ending, but during editing I came up with a better idea which means I have to rewrite it now and that's hard, so it's still a WIP (2/3), but I hope to post the third chapter soon.

I also posted two more Dice Disasters snippets: one about Cody's sister and the one where Erica is a D&D player. It's such a tiny fandom but I always get comments and that makes me happy and is very motivating.

There's an active shooter situation in central Vienna and I'm just like *deep breath* fucking 2020, man.

Earlier today I updated my collection of Dice Disasters snippets with a short speculative scene with Max and Pickles about the burning question of ( spoiler ): here.
I plan to keep updating on Mondays so I have something to look forward to on Mondays. The scene for next week is already written.

For her birthday, dhampyresa prompted "TMA, the Admiral saves the day":

A Cat Every Day Keeps the Fears Away
gen, 0.6k; Jon, the Admiral, Georgie, early season 3
Summary: "You won't be able to keep this up forever," Jon told the Admiral.

Everything is better with cats.

I started writing this over a year ago. I finished a first version, but wasn't quite happy with it and never posted it; and then TMA #167 came out and I immediately realized what I could add to make it better.

Last Edition
2.2k, gen, spoilers up to #167
Summary: Gertrude and Mary have one last conversation.

I must have listened to "First Edition" two dozen times trying to get their voices right... At least I find it easier with an audio source.

Happy New Year! I had a great ending to 2019 and beginning of 2020 and I hope you did too :)

DD had free tickets, so on December 30th we went to the Museum of Modern Art. By far my favorite "exhibit" was the "human billiard" installation: a big bouncy castle, without the "castle" parts but with large balls :D
Afterwards we went to see the newest Star Wars movie (more on that later.) DD also badly twisted her ankle, which sucks.

Then on New Year's Eve instead of going somewhere this year DD and I invited friends and LB to our place. We had cheese fondue and chocolate fondue, it was delicious. In-between we played a boardgame and destroyed Sauron, and clearly defeating Dark Lords is a good omen.

Today there was more delicious food at my parents', and time to read (so many stories – Yuletide and others – I want to read!) Tomorrow I'm planning to start being productive and studying etc. again, but not yet.

Yuletide fics were revealed. This was my sixth time participating, and so far I've written Steerswoman fic every second year.

Things That Make You Think Different (Steerswoman series – Rosemary Kirstein)
Gen, 2.7k
Summary: Alemeth will go on forever, more or less the same. It's Steffie that's changed.

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I just found out that I didn't get into the specialization I wanted this semester (it's okay, I have a back-up plan, but still annoying), so I'm posting fic to cheer myself up. For my h/c-bingo square "falsely accused."

The Cost of the Second Lie (1521 words)
Fandom: Winternight Series - Katherine Arden
Characters: Brother Aleksandr Peresvet, Grand Prince Dmitrii Ivanovich
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Loyalty
Summary: Sasha knew that Dmitrii had good reasons to throw him in prison.

I heard about the Escape the Iron Triangle Exchange from sholio and decided to sign up on a whim, totally forgetting that I had two D&D sessions that weekend, so I wrote most of my story in three hours on Monday morning. I had fun with it, and I got a great fic:

Birds of a Feather by Artemis1000 (Krabat)
Gen, 1.1k
Summary:In his early days at the mill when summer lightens even the darkest magic, Krabat gives a promise to Tonda which he will remember not to forget.

Great Krabat&Tonda friendship and atmosphere, a wonderful nice and warm summer moment before a dark background :)


I wrote original fiction:
Raising the Stakes
2.4k, OMC/OMC, vampire hunter/vampire, sacrifice
(I tagged it m/m because my recip requested a relationship and it can definitely be read as pre-slash, but the story itself is gen.)
Summary: Vampire hunters should kill all vampires they come across.
I'm quite proud of the title, btw xD
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I wrote more in those three hours than in the entire last month, I think I need to do more flashfic exchanges! And possibly write more origfic – since I'm between fandoms at the moment and mostly write fic for various book canons, I often don't feel like I have a very firm grasp on the worlds/characters and need to reread canon every time, which slows the writing down a lot. One day I'll be "in" a fandom again, one day.